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Kairosoft games

Hi everybody,

I come here for ask you questions about Kairosft's games:

i play a game on my iphone , it name is ''Game Dev Story''
I love this game, so i research on internet a lot of informations about this.
I found the website http://kairosoft.net/kairopark/osushi.html and i saw a lot of this kind of games on PC.
I would like to play this kind of game (somes are free) but the big problem for me is the japanese langage.
So i come here for ask you if you know somes translation about this games??
i love a lot this knid of japanese games, but i cant play it cause japanese langage
Can you help me for my request?

I'm also interested in Kairosoft's other games. As far as I know, the company plans to translate Game Dev Story 2 for iOS/Android, and then some of its other games for those devices. No plans to translate the PC versions... you might do well to contact the company and politely ask them if they're interested in translating their Windows games.

The surprise success of Game Dev Story has prompted developer Kairosoft to start thinking about a sequel, though they are "not planning on releasing it soon." (via Touch Arcade)

The iOS management sim, which was released back in October, is currently holding onto a spot in the Top 200 app rankings. The object of the game is to take a startup with four employees, develop a game and try to rake in cash from sales.

Game Dev Story is actually a port of a 1996 Japanese PC game. The iOS sequel is likely to be a port of Game Dev Story 2, which was released roughly a decade ago; Kairosoft is planning on adding at least a few new features though.
"We are thinking of improving the game by adding elements of networking in the sequel, such as sales score rankings and sending employees to a friend?s company, etc," a spokesperson said.
At the moment, Kairosoft is working on a city management title along the lines of SimCity for the iPhone. Work on Game Dev Story 2 looks to begin sometime afterward.

thanks for your answers!
Kairosoft make a new game on Ios Iphone: "Hot Springs Story"
Its similar to the Game Dev Story, but you need to manage a Hot spring water !
Very good idea, and of course, i take this game, i play since 3 days, and i like it very much!!

The surprise success of Game Dev Story has prompted developer Kairosoft to start thinking about a sequel, though they are "not planning on releasing it soon." (via Touch Arcade)

The iOS management sim, which was released back in October, is currently holding onto a spot in the Top 200 app rankings. The object of the game is to take a startup with four employees, develop a game and try to rake in cash from sales.

Game Dev Story is actually a port of a 1996 Japanese PC game. The iOS sequel is likely to be a port of Game Dev Story 2, which was released roughly a decade ago; Kairosoft is planning on adding at least a few new features though.
"We are thinking of improving the game by adding elements of networking in the sequel, such as sales score rankings and sending employees to a friend?s company, etc," a spokesperson said.
At the moment, Kairosoft is working on a city management title along the lines of SimCity for the iPhone. Work on Game Dev Story 2 looks to begin sometime afterward.

so i heard, i heard that game dev story 2 will be exclusive to iphone/ipod

Yeah Game dev story was an amazing game, I have been getting many sleepless nights because I was playing that all night.

So damn fun to create a team and spend hours trying to sell 40 millions copies of your dating sim RPG.

I've been playing their other game called "Hot spring story" for the past couple weeks. That game is insanely addictive and is what I would think a cross between game dev story and sim city would feel like.

QUICK GUIDE – GAME DEV STORY PC
The other day I saw a wonderful thread on NeoGAF about an iPhone game called Game Dev Story. It’s a sim game about starting a video game dev shop in the 80s and pushing it into the 90s and beyond. Given this screenshot of the PC edition, you might see why it’s my cup of tea.

OK, sure, lots of Japanese text, whatever. But lookit all those numbers! I forgot to bring up a sales graph, but you can imagine one I’m sure.

Unfortunately, the PC version available here is only available in Japanese and doesn’t have all the features from the iPhone edition. However, it is still incredibly addictive if you can figure out how to play it.

I figured as what passes for a public service on the internet, I’d post up a little guide on how to play it for people that don’t read moon letters.

If you want to see the japanese text (which is useful for matching genres/themes according to the tables below), you need East Asian Language Support (you can install it via the Regions tab) and a way to start the game using Japanese for non-unicode apps (google AppLocale for the best way).

Starting a game
Open the Menu menu (M) and choose the top option (New Game). The choices are Normal Mode and Beginner Mode; Beginner Mode has a bunch of tutorial-type stuff, in Japanese of course, so it’s unlikely to be much use until/unless the entire game is translated.

That done, you’ll name your company. Using English works just fine (it’s actually best).

Main menu bar

From left to right:

Save game
Load game
Invest in Promotion: Spend money to improve your company’s reputation in your town. Increases your games’ base “desirability” somewhat. (NOTE: You can only invest once per week in any of the three types)
Invest in Genre Variety: Improve the selection of genres you can potentially get when making a game.
Invest in Infrastructure: Improve the amount of game units you can manufacture in a single week slightly. This will be done automatically based on your management selection
Hire new workers. You have to pay their yearly salary on hiring and at the end of March. (don’t hire in March)
Purchase Technology. Will be explained separately.
Get a loan from the bank (30% interest!) lists current loans.
Purchase computers to develop e.g. 16/32/64 bit games. These don’t do anything except let you develop that set of games (and below).
Buy a license to develop for a particular system.

Software menu (Name, Price, Units Sold, Units left unsold)
Rankings (Game name, Units Sold, Company Name)
Help
If the Japanese predisposition to using ten thousands of things to count annoys you, the settings menu (“S”) then number demarcation (“N”) lets you change to thousands/millions.

Developing a game
You start out with one employee, two game development tables, 8-bit computers and a license to develop on the MSG game system. Hiring a few people is a good move at the start.

Left-click on one of your game dev tables to bring up the development menu:

Original Game
Sequel (requires certain # of sales)
Game based on Manga
Cancel
Pick a system and a target audience:

Your developers will decide what percentage of work they should devote to each aspect of the game (Japanese left, English right – order is the same)

全年齢 All Ages
小学生 Elementary School
中学生 Middle School
高学生 High School
青年 Young Men
おじさん Middle Aged
おじいちゃん Grandparents

Left-click on your developer(s) (resting in the lounge) and right-click on a desk at the game dev area to get them working. They’ll automatically rest when stressed, unless you change it.

Once game development hits 50%, it’s in Alpha. Your workers will suggest several subjects or themes for the game, with more variance if you have more workers and more investment in genre/subject discovery.

Each genre has a point increase and cost increase, just like last time.

Once you hit 100%, your game is ready to ship – if you’d like. You will probably have a few bugs (red number), and your developers may or may not recommend fixing them. The top option is “Ship”, the second option is “Fix Bugs”.

If you choose to fix the bugs, you’ll be shipping later. You’ll see a balloon over the table saying バグチェク (Bug Check, Debugging) and your bug number will gradually decrease. Your game will NOT automatically ship when the bugs are fixed – you’ll have to ship from the game dev menu (bottom button).

Once you’re ready to ship, you get a cartridge/disc size automatically based on the game’s size in KB, then pick an amount to ship (the number ending in 本) and the price point (in 円). The table shows the cost per disc then the cost for this shipment at the top, and the revenue per sale and then total revenue for the shipment on the bottom. You can also enter your game’s name above the number to ship (using English helps to pick out your game in awards ceremonies )

Then you see reviewers’ scores – they include details of why (“It’s a buggy mess” for example). You may get the editor’s choice award if you score well enough.

In the sales graph, the one button you can click on lets you manufacture more discs to sell. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT since you will almost certainly sell your first shipment for your first several games. You can manufacture once per week (each bar of the graph), so you do have to babysit your new game for a while.

Once your game’s on the market, you can start a new one by clicking on the game dev board.

GREAT! You’ve shipped your first game. Here’s stuff you may have run into and ignored:

Yearly/Random Events
Every year at the end of March, you have to pay your team. You will see a bunch of checkboxes next to the personnel info. If you un-check a box, that person will be fired when you click the “OK” button in the lower right.
At the end of every year is an awards ceremony, for best graphics, music, originality and best game overall. The final category is the WORST game of the year. The four “good” categories have rewards, while the bad one will take away money.
Every so often you will get notification that an Expo is going on. You can select games and for promote them for 1 million yen each. This will increase the publicity of the games chosen – but they must have passed the Alpha stage.
Your developers may run into a “risky” situation, and you will have to start/stop the highlighted line. This has a high chance (usually 75%) of giving you 60 bugs (very bad) but it can also have positive effects (+30 or +100 in a particular stat for that game).
Developers may also inadvertently gold-plate the game increasing the cost (by increasing the size significantly – this is the “star-eyed grin” picture’s effect).
It rarely occurs, but sometimes a rival game company will try to hire one of your developers. You will have to offer them a salary increase / bonus to stay on. The left button increases salary, the right button is an immediate bonus (which they still take if they leave).
If you release a game that’s buggy enough, a suit will be filed against you and you will be required to refund a lot of peoples’ money. This is not recommended.
General Tips
Game stats:

Kairosoft has at least 5 english translated games in the App Store already.
Game Dev Story, Hot Strings Story, Pocket Academy, Mega Mall Story, and Grand Prix Story.
The best of the bunch is still Game Dev and Hot Springs Story though.

I have an android phone, I had played Game Dev Story, Hot Spring Story, and Grand Prix Story. I wish they will release Pocket academy on android
because as far as I know, they only release it for iOs.
By the way, I want to add Pocket League Story I'm playing it now on my phone I don't understand japanese so I really love this game because they are in english